The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
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What it looks like on paper may be interesting enough, but what the listeners hears is ultimately what stays with him, that he is concerned with.Leo Ornstein
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.
Leo Ornstein
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
Leo Ornstein
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
Leo Ornstein
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
Leo Ornstein
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